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000667 -3- 9:45a.m. Depart WDIO-TV for Virginia~ Minnesota, by auto. 10:50 a.m. Arrive Virginia High School in Virginia, Minnesota. HHH to participate in special youth convocation attended by Iron Range area high school and junior college students. HHH to make opening statement and then submit to Q and A from student panelists from various area schools. 12:00 noon Program concludes. 12:05 p.m. Depart Virginia High School. 12:10 p.m. Arrive Coates Hotel in downtown Virginia. Proceed to suite to freshen up. 12:30 p.m. HHH accompanied by Cong. Blatnik attends special noon luncheon of labor, business and civic leaders. HHH to be introduced by Cong. Blatnik. HHH to speak. 2:00 p.m. HHH departs Virginia for Cloquet, Minnesota. 3:30p.m. Arrive Cloquet. Proceed to home of Larry Yetka where special private arrangements for rest and relaxation have been provided. 0 0 C) en en 0") 000664 -4- 4:00p.m. Attend private reception at new Cloquet Senior High School. 4:30p.m. Participate in dedication ceremonies of new Cloquet Senior High School. Congressman Blatnik to introduce HHH for speech. 5:30p.m. Conclusion of program. Depart by motorcade for I Coates Hotel, Virginia, Minnesota. \ 6:45p.m. Arrive Coates Hotel, Virginia, Minnesota. Proceed to suite for freshen up. 7:15p.m. HHH and Mrs. HHH and Cong. Blatnik attend special testimonial dinner honoring HHH and sponsored by Friends of Humphrey. 8:15p.m. HHH remarks. 9:15p.m. Dinner concludes. 9:30p.m. Motorcade departs Virginia for Duluth International Airport. 10:30 p.m. Arrive Duluth International Airport, JFP Enterprises hangar and board Falcon Jet for return flight to Minneapolis/ St. Paul International Airport. 11:00 p.m. Arrive Northern Air Motive, Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. 000668 INTRODUCTORY RE ARKS THE HONORABLE HUBERT H. HUMPHREY DULUTH DAY DULUTH, MI NESOTA MAY 22, I969 I WANT TO SPEAK BRIEFLY OF THE WORLD SITUATION TODAY AND THEN I WOULD WELCOME YOUR QUESTIONS, ~FIRST, IT IS INCREASINGLY EVIDENT THAT THE WORLD TODAY IS PASSING THROUGH AN AGE OF TRANSITION, L As HENRY KIssiNGER sA I o RECENTLY, "To A DEGREE RARE IN HISTORY, WORLD LEADERS ARE MOVING INTO A ~ I .. GREAT UNKNOWN RULES FOR WORLD ORDER) WRITTEN LESS THAN 25 YEARS AGO, ARE ALREADY WEARING OUT, NEW " WAYS FOR COUNTRIES TO DEAL WITH EACH OTHER WILL HAVE TO BE FOUND," ~ THIS TRANSITION HAS MANY ASPECTS, OF WHICH THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL--- MAY BE THE MOST IMPORTANT, 00066 9 -2- ~ BUT IT ALSO HAS A POLITICAL DIMENSION, IT REFLECTS THE BREAKUP OF A WORLD ORDER IN WHICH THE NATURE OF POWER AND AUTHORITY HAS SEEMED REASONABLY CLEAR., ~OLD NATIONAL ALLIANCES, SUCH AS THE SPECIAL AND UNIQUE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE U. S. AND GREAT BRITAIN ARE CHANGING.bEW FORCES, SUCH AS JAPAN, WHICH IS ALREADY THE THIRD STRONGEST ECONOMIC POWER IN THE WORLD ARE EMERGING. ~ IN ADDITION, IT IS NOW CLEAR THAT MANY OF THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WILL NO LONGER YIELD TO THE POWERS THROUGH WHICH THE WILL OF GOVERNMENTS HISTORICALLY HAVE PREVAILED~~~ SWORD AND THE PUBLIC PURSE. t.ET ME BE MORE SPECIFIC, IN 1832 KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ LAID DOWN THE DICTUM THAT "WAR IS NOT MERELY A POLITICAL ACT, BUT ALSO A POLITICAL INSTRUMENT .. A CONTINUATION \ OF POLITICAL RELATIONS-A CARRYING OUT OF THE SAME ~ BY OTHER MEANS." 0006 70 -3- BUT TODAY, GIVEN THE UNPRECEDENTED POSSIBILITIES THAT NATIONS NOW HAVE FOR DEVASTATING THEIR OPPONENTS, WAR CA N NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED AS MERELY AN EXTENSION OF POLITICS. (THE COSTS FOR ALL SIDES ARE JUST TOO GREAT. IN ADDITION, "CONVENTIONAL" WARFARE SEEMS, IN MANY CASES, TO BE MISSING AN INGREDIENT THAT WAS VITAL TO VON CLAUSEWITZ'S RULE: THE CAPACITY FOR RUTHLESSNESS, As STEWART ALSOP POINTED OUT RECENTLY, MILITARY POWER IS A DECISIVE MILITARY INSTRUMENT ONLY IF THE VICTOR CARRIES OUT ITS MILITARY VICTORY WITH SUFFICIENT RUTHLESSNESS SO AS TO LAY THE ISSUE TO REST FOR SOME PERIOD OF TIME. IN THREE RECENT MILITARY CONFRONTATIONS, NATIONS OF THE WORLD HAVE NOT SO CARRIED OUT THEIR EFFORTS: -. THE ARAB-ISRAELI WAR, THE IJ. S. I VIETNAM, AND THE .. RUSSIAN-CZECHOSLOVAKIA AFF AIR. 00067\ -4- IN SHORT, VON CLAUSEWITZ'S OLD DICTUM NO LONGER WORKS VERY WELL IN 1969. THE POWER OF GOVERNMENTS TO STRUCTURE OTHERS BY MILITARY FORCE HAS CHANGED IN ITS SCOPE AND CHARACTER, AT THE SAME TIME, THERE IS A DEVELOPING AWARENESS THAT ACTION BY EVEN THE MOST WEALTHY GOVERNMENTS CANNOT MOBILIZE THE EXTERNAL RESOURCES NEEDED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS FACED HERE AND ABROAD. THUS, TRADITIONAL NOTIONS OF THE POWER AND AUTHORITY OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS NO LONGER COMMAND THE ALLEGIANCE THEY ONCE DID. PEOPLE AND NATIONS ARE GROPING FOR NEW CONCEPTS WHICH WILL RESPOND MORE DIRECTLY TO THE NEEDS OF TODAY, THE FAILURE TO FIND THEM AS YET ACCOUNTS FOR SOME OF THE UNEASE AND QUESTIONING WHICH CHARACTERIZES MUCH OF TODAY'S WORLD, 00 os7 2 -5- A SECOND FEATURE OF THE "WORLD TODAY" IS THAT WE ARE WITNESSING THE GROWTH OF A NEW SET OF DIVISIONS IN THE WORLD -- DIVISIONS THAT RIVAL AND THREATEN TO OUTSTRIP THE TRADITIONAL EAST-WEST CONFRONTATION, - - THESE DIVISIONS ARE BETWEEN THE NoRTHERN AND SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE WORLD -- BETWEEN THE RICH AND THE POOR, WHITE AND COLORED, STABLE AND UNSTABLE, THEY ARE INTENSIFIED BY THE CLOSE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN POLITICAL CONTROL AND RESOURCES, THE PEOPLE AND NATIONS IN THE SoUTHERN PART OF THE WORLD NEED ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY AND WEALTH BUT THEY ALSO NEED TO CONTROL THEIR OWN LIVES, MosT RESOURCES, HOWEVER, ARE CONCENTRATED IN THE HANDS OF THE NoRTH, IN WHITE AMERICA, AND IN THE RICH, INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS -- AND THESE NATIONS HAVE TENDED TO MAKE THEM AVAILABLE ONLY ON THEIR OWN TERMS, 0 oos7 3 THE SoUTHERN PART OF THE WORLD, THEN, IS LEFT WITH THE CHOICE OF SELF-DETERMINATION WITH FEW RESOURCES, AND MORE RESOURCES WITH LITTLE SELF­ DETERMINATION. THESE DIVISIONS AND THESE PROBLEMS PRESENT A PARTICULAR DIFFICULTY TO AMERICA. WHILE THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE TOO WEAK TO DO US PHYSICAL HARM, OUR MORAL VALUES COULD BE ERODED IF WE STOOD BY PASSIVELY IN THE FACE OF DEEPENING HOSTILITY AND HUMAN MISERY ABROAD. LIKE THE TRADITIONAL RICH LANDLORD, WE COULD WIND UP BEING CORRUPTED BY OUR ISOLATION FROM THOSE ABOUT US. DESPITE THE EMERGENCE OF THIS NEW INTERNATIONAL DIVISION, THE EAST-WEST, OR MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE U. S. - SOVIET RIVALRY CONTINUES TO BE THE DOMINANT CHARACTERISTIC OF THE WORLD TODAY. 000674 -7- THIS RELATIONSHIP CONTINUES TO BE A MfXTURE OF BOTH COOPERATION AND CONFLICT AND ONE WHOSE CONTOURS ARE CONSTANTLY CHANGING. THE SoVIETS, PARTICULARLY, SEEM TO BE ENTERING A NEW PHASE IN THEIR EVALUATION OF THIS RELATIONSHIP. SPEAKING TO THE AMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE AssOCIATION LAST NOVEMBER, PROFESSOR ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, A FORMER MEMBER OF THE PoLICY PLANNING COUNCIL OF THE EPARTMENT OF STATE, ARGUED THAT THE SoVIET LEADERSHIP IN RECENT YEARS HAS REASSESSED THE SCALE, THE SCOPE AND THE CHARACTER OF PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE, HAS CONCLUDED THAT PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE WHERE BOTH SIDES PLAY EVENLY IS MORE DANGEROUS TO THEIR STABILITY THAN TO OUR OWN AND HAS BEGUN TO LIMIT EAST-WEST TIES. 00067 5 -8- WHEREAS THE "OLD" PEACEFUL CO-EXISTENCE WAS AN OPEN-ENDED GAME IN WHICH WE WOULD TRY TO IMPROVE RELATIONS WITH THE EAST EUROPEANS AND THE SOVIET UNION WOULD FLIRT WITH WEST EUROPEANS, THE NEW, "LIMITED CO-EXISTENCE" ALLOWS SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENTS IN SENSITIVE AND MUTUALLY NECESSARY AREAS SUCH AS ARMS CONTROL BUT PROHIBITS THE BROAD FRATERNIZATION INTO WHICH MR. KHRUSHCHEV WAS PREPARED TO PLUNGE, BECAUSE OF THIS, COMPETITION WILL REMAIN THE CENTRAL CHARACTERISTIC OF THE U, S, - SOVIET RELATIONSHIP, BUT WILL NOT PRECLUDE SPECIFIC, LIMITED ARRANGEMENTS, A FOURTH CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD SITUATION IS THAT THE TIES BETWEEN THE AVERAGE MAN AND THE MAN IN GOVERNMENT ARE EVERYWHERE BREAKING DOWN, 0 00 67 6 -9- THERE IS AN INCREASING SENSE OF ALIENATION ABROAD, PARTICULARLY IN THE INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS OF THE WORLD. IN THE SOVIET UNION, IN THE U. S., IN MEXICO AND IN FRANCE YOUTH IS DISSATISFIED WITH THE OBJECTIVES AND THE PROCEDURES OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS AND PRESS DEMANDS FOR POLITICAL REFORM. DISILLUSIONMENT WITH PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IS WIDESPREAD IN WESTERN EUROPE AND FAITH IN THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS CANNOT BE SAID TO BE VERY HIGH IN THIS COUNTRY. INDEED, THE HONESTY OF GOVERNMENT ITSELF IS WIDELY IN QUESTION. THE EVIDENCE FROM COMMUNIST NATIONS SUGGESTS THAT OFFICIAL CORRUPTION IN ALL ITS FORMS, FROM OUTRIGHT THEFT TO THE PEDDLING OF INFLUENCE AND THE MORE SHADOWY AREA OF NEPOTISM, IS A CONTINUAL IRRITANT TO THE POPULATION. 0 00 6 77 -IQ- IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES, RUSSIA, CANADA, THE U. S., RACIAL AND ETHNIC TENSIONS CONTRIBUTE TO THIS FEELING OF ALIENATION AND LEAD MANY TO THE POSITION THAT EXISTING POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS MUST BE RADICALLY CHANGED. ~--- IN SHORT, THE FERMENT WHICH WE WITNESS IN THIS COUNTRY IS A WORLD-WIDE PHENOMENON -- LIMITED TO NO SINGLE COUNTRY, ECONOMIC SYSTEM OR IDEOLOGY. WE LIVE IN DIFFICULT, CHALLENGING, YET TREMENDOUSLY EXCITING TIMES. I BELIEVE THAT THE UNITED STATES HAS A SPECIAL ROLE TO PLAY IN THE WORLD TODAY AS I HAVE DESCRIBED IT. WE MUST CONTINUE TO TAKE AN ACTIVE PART IN DEVELOPING THE WORLD TOWARD A RICHER AND MORE REWARDING PLACE FOR ALL HUMAN BEINGS. 0 oos78 -II- • - - - • •• • • * . • THIS DOES NOT REQUIRE US TO BE THE "POLICEMAN . --· . - . ..... - - .. -- . -.- OF THE WORLD," RESPONDING TOO QUICKLY, TOO AUTOMATICALLY, AND TOO UNTHINKINGLY TO EVERY SITUATION, NEVERTHELESS, WE CANNOT WITHDRAW WITH IMPUNITY FROM A WORLD THAT CRIES OUT FOR LEADERSHIP AND DIRECTION, . WE MUST SEEK, IN COOPERATION WITH OTHERS, TO PROVIDE THAT LEADERSHIP, .. THERE ARE MANY OTHER SPECIFIC PROGRAMS AND .. POLICIES I WOULD ADVOCATE FOR THIS NATION, I TALKED ABOUT MANY OF THEM IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, BUT RATHER THAN TALK ABOUT THEM IN MY INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, I SUGGEST WE MOVE NOW TO QUESTIONS, AND I WILL AMPLIFY MY THOUGHTS FURTHER AS WE GO ALONG, r .

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